While it is not abating worldwide debate on the case “Apple-San Bernardino” and digital privacy, the news coming from Amazon shows that (maybe) not all think the same way. The e-commerce giant has released the update of Fire Os , bringing the version number 5, for proprietary devices like Kindle Fire, fire phone, Fire and Fire HD TV Stick. A good thing, you might think. Maybe not: members of the Kindle forums have noted that in the new release is entirely absent encryption device (full disk encryption) that, in case of loss or cyber attack, so leave a myriad of information at the mercy of anyone.
the choice of Amazon immediately sparked numerous controversies is the specialized forum is on social networks. A company spokesperson explained this way the decision to the website The Verge: “When we released Fire Os 5 we removed some enterprise features that users did not use” . A move already established in the fall of 2015, well before the update over-the-air released in recent days.
Fire OS is an operating system derived from Android devices and the issue of encryption has also involved smartphone and tablet manufactured by OEMs with the ecosystem of the green robot. Google promised to introduce this default functionality with the advent of Lollipop , but a number of performance problems on low-end terminals convinced the Mountain View giant to postpone everything. The Android users can still enable full disk encryption simply from the settings menu.
which owners of an updated Kindle Fire with Fire Os 5, from today, can no longer do. It is therefore not clear why Amazon has decided to remove all of the functionality and explanations of the company’s spokesperson do not convince . The company has confirmed that communications between your tablet (and other devices involved) and their own cloud platforms will continue to respond to the highest standards of privacy and security, including encryption. But if a user were to connect to servers on the reliability uncertain?
These devices are obviously not as widespread as those based on iOs or Android (version “original”), but the problem remains and no can be attributed to the performance only . The tablet of Amazon are not designed to touch the top of the performance, but without encryption can become dangerous objects for the privacy of citizens, is exposed to hackers is to possible espionage activities of States. In addition, the Android code put already available full-disk encryption feature, because then get rid of it in toto?
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